by Alison Bass | Jul 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
After a two-year hiatus, Edgartown, a town on Martha’s Vineyard, resumed its July 4th celebration with a parade and fireworks over the Edgartown Harbor. The parade route was packed with people of all ages, from young babies to octogenarians and I felt distinctly...
by Alison Bass | Jun 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the years leading up to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, you could always find protestors waving signs and yelling at patients going into abortion clinics, particularly those in urban areas where there was easy access to public transit. The protestors were usually...
by Alison Bass | Jun 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Most of my life I’ve had a strained relationship with my Dad. When we were young, he left most of the child rearing to Mom, and although I strived mightily to win his attention (even running away from home once or twice), I always seemed to fall short. My Dad...
by Alison Bass | Jun 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Like many young people, Watergate inspired me to become a journalist. But unlike some of my contemporaries, I was lucky enough to find myself reporting on how Watergate affected the Congressional representation in my own hometown, while still a college student. Before...
by Alison Bass | Jun 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
I often think of my best friend Marion, especially when I’m dancing at an outdoors event. I imagine her gazing down at me from one of those high nimbus clouds in the sky, saying, “You go girl!” It was Marion, after all, who taught me how to move and we never...
by Alison Bass | May 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
At a barbecue this weekend, the hostess mentioned that she regularly saw Mike Barnicle, the disgraced former columnist from The Boston Globe, on Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough’s daily morning show on MSNBC. This friend had read my memoir, Brassy Broad: How one...
by Alison Bass | May 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
I love traveling, in large part because I get to meet people from different cultures and countries and learn more about how the problems we face in the United States are echoed and sometimes amplified around the world. When I was in the Boston area for my son’s...
by Alison Bass | May 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 2021, the CEOs of America’s seven largest health insurance companies cumulatively earned more than $283 million in 2021 — by far the most of any year in the past decade, according to this story in statnews. The CEO of UnitedHealthcare alone earned $142 million,...
by Alison Bass | May 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
When I was 20 years old, I was raped in London at the beginning of my junior year abroad. Lucky for me, the kind custodian of the YWCA where I was staying for a few nights, suggested that I go to a nearby hospital the next morning and ask for a morning-after pill....
by Alison Bass | May 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Okay, so J.D. Vance won the Republican nomination for a Senate seat in Ohio (in a crowded five-candidate field by seven points). Some political pundits are crowing that this is a sign of Donald Trump’s continuing hold over the Republican party. Maybe, or maybe...
